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disputation|dɪspjuːˈteɪʃən|
Also 4 -acioun, 4–6 -acion, -atioun, 5–6 dys-.
[ad. L. disputātiōn-em, n. of action from disputāre to dispute; perh. immed. a. F. disputation (15th c. in Littré). The earlier word was disputisoun, of which disputation may be viewed as a refashioning after the L. original.]
1. The action of disputing or debating (questions, etc.); controversial argument; debate, discussion, controversy.
c1450Merlin 139 So indured longe the disputacion betwene hem tweyne. 1489Barbour's Bruce i. 250 Than mayss clerkis questioun, Quhen thai fall in disputacyoun. [The original of 1375 had prob. disputisoun.] 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 38 b, Let vs leue this disputacyon and reasonynge. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 30 For one litle wordes sake, they wer so whote in disputation. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 77 He'd run in Debt by Disputation, And pay with Ratiocination. 1758Johnson Idler No. 19 ⁋3 In the heat of disputation. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. lxiii. 427 He had a keen relish for theological disputation.
b. with a and pl. A discussion, a dispute.
1557N. T. (Rhem.) Rom. xiv. 1 Him that is weake in the fayth, take vnto you, but not to enter into doubtful disputations of controuersies. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 25, I was..by certaine earnest disputations..therto so prouoked. 1852Robertson Serm. Ser. iv. xix. (1876) 246 The church was filled with disputations. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 208 With one of these..to hold a disputation.
c. spec. An exercise in which parties formally sustain, attack, and defend a question or thesis, as in the mediæval schools and universities.
1551T. Wilson Logike (1567) 61 a, That is called a disputacion or reasonyng of matters, when certaine persones debate a cause together, and one taketh part contrary vnto an other. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 281 [They] haue a disputation for the victorship once euery quarter of the yeare. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xx. 103 Academical disputations are two-fold, ordinary and extraordinary;..extraordinary disputations I call those which are perform'd in the public schools of the university, as requisite qualifications for degrees. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. viii. 344 To visit the academies, where they mingled in disputation. 1870Jevons Elem. Logic xviii. (1890) 152 In former centuries it was, indeed, the practice for all students at the Universities to take part in public disputations, during which elaborate syllogistic arguments were put forward by one side and confuted by precise syllogisms on the other side.
attrib.1760Goldsm. Cit. W. lxviii. ⁋10, I have..drawn up a disputation challenge..to this effect.
†2. Written discussion or treatment of a question; a dissertation. Obs.
a1533Frith (title), A Disputacion of Purgatorye; diuided into thre bokes. 1615Crooke Body of Man 45 This disputation concerning the number of the principall parts.
†3. Doubtful or disputable condition; doubt. Obs.
1549Allen Jude's Par. Rev. 34 Let vs content..oure selfes with this, in this doubte and dysputacyon. 1689Prot. Garland 2 For without all Disputation, I shall never trouble you.
†4. Interchange of ideas; discourse, conversation. Obs. (A doubtful sense.)
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 206, I vnderstand thy Kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation. 1599― Hen. V, iii. ii. 101 Captaine Mackmorrice..will you voutsafe me, looke you, a few disputations with you. |